Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

_____ is a way of understanding the world based on science.

Sociological research shows that all categories of people have had the same opportunities to participate in sports.

Explain how the structural-functional approach is more focused on understanding society as it is, and how the social-conflict approach (consider the gender-conflict or race-conflict approaches) is more focused on social change.

Who coined the term "institutional completeness"?

Herbert Spencer described human society as having much in common with

Understanding how society operates offers little benefit to anyone but the most privileged people.

Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society, like the laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world.

What did Peter Berger mean when he said the sociological perspective is "seeing the general in the particular"?

Ancient philosophers, including Plato, were more interested in imagining the "ideal" society than in studying society as it really is.

A statement of how and why specific facts are related is called a(n)

Who, of the following would be most likely to ask "how is society held together"?

Explain the difference between sociological generalizations about categories of people and the simple stereotypes we hear in everyday life.

Feminism and the gender-conflict approach highlight ways in which women are unequal to men.

Who was the sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?

Quick Quiz: -Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behaviour.

Social-exchange analysis is one micro-level approach to understanding social interaction.

Which of the following best describes the focus of the structural-functional approach?

The focus of the symbolic-interaction approach is how society is divided by class, race, and gender.

Canadian sociology, as distinct from American sociology, contains

We would expect the sociological perspective to be most likely to develop in a place that was